On SLE martingales in boundary WZW models (Q657635)

The authors consider the boundary Wess-Zumino-Witten model on a half-plane with a cut growing according to the Schramm-Loewner stochastic evolution and boundary fields inserted at the tip of the cut and infinity. They study necessary and sufficient conditions for boundary correlation functions to be the Schramm-Loewner evolution martingales. Necessary conditions come from the requirement for the boundary field at the tip of the cut to have a depth two null vector. Sufficient conditions are established using Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equations for boundary correlators.